In practice this award was the precursor to the Medal of Honor introduced during the Civil War. After a long period of disuse, Badge of Military Merit was reinstituted in 1932 as the Purple Heart and is a decoration for members of the armed forces wounded or killed in action or as a result of a terrorist attack.
There is very little precipitation in the Mediterranean chaparral. The average annual precipitation is 10-20 inches. The kind of precipitation is rain. The average rainfall for the entire winter is 6.8 inches. The average rainfall for the entire spring is 2.2 inches. The average rainfall for summer is .2 inches. The average rainfall for fall is 4.2 inches.
California Chaparral. Chaparral is a very diverse plant community that can survive almost on winter blowing fog/clouds in Anza, California, or be adjacent to our very wet Redwood Forest. see also Habitats. Chaparral exists in many areas of the coast ranges and on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains.uring the weather patterns that existed when the Spanish explorers came to California, the Chaparral was REAL cold. The temperatures were probably -20F (-29C) along much of the central coast ranges. In most of California the climate is called Mediterranean, which corresponds with the Chaparral plant community.